Hazumi, M., Ade, P. A. R. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Abstract
LiteBIRD is a candidate satellite for a strategic large mission of JAXA. With its expected launch in the middle of the 2020s with a H3 rocket, LiteBIRD plans to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation over the full sky with unprecedented precision. The full success of LiteBIRD is to achieve δr<0.001 , where δr is the total error on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r. The required angular coverage corresponds to 2≤ℓ≤200 , where ℓ is the multipole moment. This allows us to test well-motivated cosmic inflation models. Full-sky surveys for 3 years at a Lagrangian point L2 will be carried out for 15 frequency bands between 34 and 448 GHz with two telescopes to achieve the total sensitivity of 2.5 μ K arcmin with a typical angular resolution of 0.5∘ at 150 GHz. Each telescope is equipped with a half-wave plate system for polarization signal modulation and a focal plane filled with polarization-sensitive TES bolometers. A cryogenic system provides a 100 mK base temperature for the focal planes and 2 K and 5 K stages for optical components.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISSN: | 0022-2291 |
Date of Acceptance: | 18 January 2019 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2023 16:16 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156970 |
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